Owner's Manual

178 Reporting
From IT Assistant, Jane will:
1
Select Views  Reports , then right-click All Reports in the left navigation
pane.
2 Choose New Report . The Add Report wizard starts.
She then specifies the following:
•A
Name for her report, not to exceed 64 characters
• An optional
Description
Click Next .
3 In the Select Devices dialog box, Jane chooses Select devices/groups from
the tree below
, then Servers from the available devices list.
NOTE: Selecting the top-level attribute in the device list automatically selects
all of the attributes below it. Expanding the attributes in the tree allows you to
select the specific attributes that you want to include. A check mark with a
gray background for the group selection indicates that you have made
individual selections within the group. A check mark with a white background
indicates that you have selected the entire group. Consequently, as the group
membership changes, the selection is applicable to the modified group
members.
Click Next .
4 Under Select Attributes , she chooses NIC .
5 She specifies a preferred Sort by order and clicks Next .
6 On the Summary page, she either accepts her choices or goes back and
changes them. This creates a new report with the name Jane specified in
step 2.
When Jane has confirmed her configuration, she goes to the reports window
in IT Assistant and right-clicks the report name she created and chooses
ExecuteHTML Reports.
An HTML format-based report showing NIC device information for each of
the 50 systems in her enterprise is displayed.
NOTE: When executing reports using the Internet Explorer Web browser, disable
the next-generation plug-in of JRE from Java control panel.